And if it's not contra bonos mores, Vera can be our amicus curiae anytime she likes.

What on earth are we raving on about? A quick explanation.

We're celebrating, with the MP for Redcar, her debut as a Page Three Girl.

For Vera Baird this week found herself plastered all over page three of one of Mr Rupert Murdoch's publications. It was not the infamous red-topped Sun but its slightly more sober stable mate, the Times Law Supplement.

Clearly she was tickled pink by her page three appearance, which suggested the Teesside MP could be destined to become our first woman Home Secretary.

This must be the first time ever that Political Asylum actually agrees with a Murdoch paper.

NOW Parliament has gone off for its Easter recess, a word of advice to Dari Taylor - take some time off. Have a rest.

At the start of the week the MP for Stockton South was so ill she could hardly speak. Only good taste stopped Political Asylum looking up her majority.

She had tonsillitis and obviously was in real pain.

Sane, sensible people in such a state would have taken themselves off to bed for a few days - but Parliamentary affairs are not run by such folk. They're run by the party whips.

So by Wednesday Dari was back in the Commons for the vote on student top-up fees.

The very fact she still has tonsils was a bit of a surprise. The Stockton South MP is of a generation when doctors almost routinely removed them before puberty.

But apparently her dad, Dan Jones, a Lancashire MP, was vehemently opposed to such operations, insisting tonsils were essential gatekeepers to good health.